Sentence examples for support ballot from inspiring English sources

Additionally, the workers said they would support ballot initiatives to raise minimum wage in cities and states.

Jerry Brown is said to support ballot measure for rainy-day fund.

Maybe 29,758 new evangelical Christian voters came out on their own to support Ballot Measure No. 2, which requires parental notification before an underage woman can obtain an abortion.

Similarly, the National Organization for Marriage, which has raised millions of dollars to support ballot measures to prevent same-sex couples from marrying or entering civil unions, has filed lawsuits in several states to keep the identity of its donors secret.

Support ballot initiatives for affordable housing and write to local housing groups to help them understand the need.

On the one hand, black voters have disproportionately supported ballot measures in California and North Carolina, among other states, that effectively banned same-sex marriage.

And before she was against discrimination she was for it, supporting ballot propositions banning not just marriage equality but civil unions, too.

Voters have overwhelmingly supported ballot measures to prohibit keeping chickens in cages, for example, but sales of cage-free eggs, which cost about 50 percent more than regular eggs, account for less than 5 percent of the overall market, Professor Tonsor said.

They overwhelmingly supported ballot initiatives that would make English the state's official language, deny bail to illegal immigrants who commit serious crimes and cut them off from education spending.Why then did they reject Republican candidates who supported such measures?

Though group's style and strategy may be changing, the organization's policy arm has spent millions of dollars supporting ballot initiatives in the 32 states where same-sex marriage has been outlawed.

WASHINGTON -- Voters in Seattle and Maine went to the polls Tuesday night and supported ballot initiatives to reform their campaign finance laws and expand the role of small donors in elections.